अस्यावश्यकत्वे हेतुःWhy they are needed
Verse 2
संस्कारेण विना देवि देहशुद्धिर्न जायते । नासंस्कृतोऽधिकारी स्याद् दैवे पैत्रे च कर्मणि ॥ २ ॥
saṁskārēṇa vinā dēvi dēhaśuddhirna jāyatē | nāsaṁskṛtō’dhikārī syād daivē paitrē ca karmaṇi || 2 ||
Translation
Without the saṁskāras, O Devī, the body is not made pure; and one who has not received them is not fit for the rites offered to the gods and to the ancestors.
Word by word
- saṁskārēṇa
- by the saṁskāra
- vinā
- without
- dēvi
- O Devī
- dēha
- of the body
- śuddhiḥ
- (śuddhiḥ) purity
- na
- not
- jāyatē
- comes about
- asaṁskṛtaḥ
- (asaṁskṛtaḥ) one without the saṁskāras
- adhikārī
- fit, entitled
- syād
- (syāt) is
- daivē
- in the rite for the gods
- paitrē
- in the rite for the ancestors
- ca
- and
- karmaṇi
- in the rite
Meaning
The reason the sacraments are needed. Without them the body is not purified (deha-śuddhi), and an unpurified person has no adhikāra, no standing or fitness, for the two kinds of rite that a householder must perform: daiva, the worship of the gods, and paitra, the offerings to the pitṛs, the ancestors. The saṁskāras are therefore not ornaments of a life but the ground of every other religious act in it.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 1.